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Vietnam Post is preparing to enter Vietnam's mobile telecommunications market as a mobile virtual network operator, using VNPT's existing network infrastructure.

Surgeries in Con Dao more than doubled year on year in the first seven months of 2026 as a specialist rotation programme expanded local treatment for critical patients.

Instead of pulling cables by hand through forests, drones are laying pilot lines on 110kV routes, speeding up Phu Quoc's APEC 2027 power works.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has asked local authorities to tighten oversight of medical equipment prices to ensure transparency and prevent unreasonable increases.

Six more sets of war remains have been found at Le Thi Rieng Park in Ho Chi Minh City, bringing the total recovered at the site to 327.

A man in Ha Tinh Province has survived after being swept nearly 7km offshore and spending 10 hours in the sea before swimming back to shore exhausted.

Hanoi plans to install 6,117 AI-powered traffic cameras developed and manufactured domestically with the involvement of GTEL.

Gia Lai Province has allocated over VND 212 billion (USD 8.1 million) to scrap ineligible fishing boats and help fishermen switch livelihoods as part of a fleet restructuring programme.

Five fishing boats caught fire at a port in Nghe An Province early on August 15, destroying three vessels and severely damaging two others, with no casualties reported.

Police in Phu Tho Province have charged a 36-year-old woman with industrial property rights infringement after finding nearly 400 suspected counterfeit luxury goods at her shop.

After a dispute at a restaurant in central Ho Chi Minh City, a brawl involving South Koreans left the owner dead and the manager 87 per cent injured.

Repeated thefts of electrical cables and equipment have disrupted lighting systems on the Bien Hoa-Vung Tau Expressway and caused hundreds of millions of dong in damage.

Hanoi traffic police are using drones to detect violations from the air, including vehicles using emergency lanes and stopping or picking up passengers illegally.

Dong Nai City has approved the conversion of 2.67 hectares of planted forest for construction of the Ma Da Bridge, an eight-lane project expected to be completed in 2028.

Nearly two kilometres of beachfront railings in Nha Trang are being removed and replaced after more than a decade of exposure to waves and the marine environment left sections deteriorated.

A widespread heatwave across central Vietnam is forecast to continue until August 18, with temperatures exceeding 37 degrees Celsius in some areas.

More than a third of primary school pupils in Ho Chi Minh City are overweight or obese, prompting concerns over a growing public health challenge.

Authorities in An Giang Province are working to pinpoint the location of more than 300 soldiers who died in Tram Du forest during the war.

Three kites fitted with lights disrupted 21 flights at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on August 13 after they were detected as a potential threat to aviation safety.